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				<h1>Privacy Policy</h1>
				
				<p>
					Please note that this policy 
					applies only to us and the Gigiti website, and not to other companies or 
					organizations or their web sites to which we may provide links or to any 
					software that may be downloaded.
				</p>
				
				<h2>Anonymous User Information</h2>
				
				<p>
					We collect anonymous 
					information each time you visit Gigiti, and use this information to provide our 
					services and improve the overall quality of your online experience. Each time 
					you use our search services to submit a query, we collect your IP address, 
					referral data, and browser and platform type. We do not require you to share 
					information that identifies you personally, such as your name or e-mail address, 
					in order to use the search services available on Gigiti. We collect this 
					information by assigning an anonymous ID number to your queries and linking the 
					following additional data to that number: the date and time you visited Gigiti, 
					your search terms, and the links upon which you choose to click. Like most 
					standard website servers, we use log files to collect and store this anonymous 
					user information.
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				<h2>Individual User Information</h2>
				
				<p>
					From time-to-time we may 
					collect or request information from you that identifies you personally in 
					addition to the anonymous information described above. This information may 
					include your contact information (such as name, e-mail address, shipping 
					address, and zip code) and demographic information (such as age, gender, 
					occupation, and household income). We will not use or disclose any information 
					that identifies you personally except as described in this privacy policy.
					<br />
					<br />
					We may collect or request such personal information in the following ways:
				</p>
				
				<h2>Correspondence</h2>
				
				<p>
					If you contact us, we may keep 
					a record of the contact information you provide us in order to communicate with 
					you regarding your correspondence.
				</p>
				
				<h2>Surveys, Promotions or Contests</h2>
				
				<p>
					From time to time, we may 
					conduct surveys, promotions or contests on Gigiti. Participation in these events 
					is completely voluntary and you will always have a choice whether or not to 
					participate. Any personal information collected as part of the event will only 
					be collected and used for purposes of the event, such as to notify the winners 
					and award prizes for a promotion or contest. Survey information will be used for 
					purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of the Gigiti 
					website.
				</p>
				
				<h2>Refer-A-Friend</h2>
				
				<p>
					If you use our referral 
					services for informing friends or family about any of our services, we may ask 
					you for individual user information and the name and email address of your 
					friend or family member. We will only use the information you provide us to send 
					the person an e-mail inviting them to visit the site or use the service.
				</p>
				
				<h2>Third Party Information Gathering</h2>
				
				<p>
					Gigiti contains links to other 
					websites on the Internet. Please be aware that Gigiti.com is not responsible for 
					the information collection and use and privacy practices of such other websites 
					and third parties. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave Gigiti and 
					to read the privacy statements of each and every other website that may collect 
					their personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely 
					to information collected by us from the Gigiti website.
				</p>
				
				<p>
					We use third party companies to 
					serve advertisements when you visit Gigiti. These companies may use information 
					about your visits to Gigiti in order to provide advertisements about goods and 
					services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements 
					to Gigiti, these companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your 
					computer or use other technologies such as pixel tags. Our privacy policy does 
					not cover any use of information that a third-party ad-serving company may 
					collect from you. These companies have their own policies as to record keeping 
					and data retention. If you would like more information about this practice, or 
					would like to know your choices about not having this information used by 
					advertising companies, please click here: <a href="http://www.networkadvertising.org/">http://www.networkadvertising.org/</a>
				</p>
				
				<h2>Cookies</h2>
				
				<p>
					We and our third party 
					advertising partners (as described above) may place and access cookies on your 
					computer when you use our services. A cookie is a small data file sent to your 
					browser and which may then be stored on your computer. We use both session 
					cookies and persistent cookies. For the session cookie, once you close the 
					browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file 
					stored on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can 
					be removed by following the instructions provided in your Internet browser help 
					file.
					<br />
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					We use cookie technology to 
					track which pages you view and which Web browsers you use on Gigiti. We may also 
					use cookies to help us provide personalized features and preferences to you in a 
					way that may be linked to individual user information that you elect to share 
					with us. We also use &quot;action tags&quot; to assist in delivering the cookie. These 
					action tags allow us to compile statistics and other data about our customers on 
					an aggregate basis, by embedding a random identifying number on each user&#39;s 
					browser. Then we track where that number shows up on our site.
				</p>
				
				<h2>Sharing</h2>
				
				<p>
					We may need to disclose the 
					personal information we collect from you when required by law or otherwise 
					necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a criminal 
					investigation, a court order, or legal process. We may also share your personal 
					information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or 
					take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving 
					potential threats to the physical safety of any person or violations of our 
					terms of use.
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					<br />
					To the extent we use third 
					party service providers or have co-sponsors of any survey, promotion or 
					contents, the information we collect from you may be accessed or shared as part 
					of the service or event with any such third party or co-sponsor, provided that 
					any such disclosure will be subject to written agreement with such third party 
					or co-sponsor to only use such information for the purpose of the service or 
					event and to not share or make any other use of the information.
				</p>
				
				<h2>Mergers Business Transitions</h2>
				
				<p>
					In the event Gigiti goes 
					through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another 
					company, or selling a portion of its assets that involve Gigiti, the information 
					we collect from Gigiti.com will, in most instances, be transferred to the third 
					party as part of the assets.
				</p>
				
				<h2>Choice/Opt-out</h2>
				
				<p>
					We desire to keep you in 
					control of the personal information you provide to us. Accordingly, you can 
					request to review, correct, change or remove the personal information we collect 
					and store from you at any time by contacting us through the CONTACT link at the 
					bottom of the page.
				</p>
				
				<h2>Notification of Changes</h2>
				
				<p>
					If we change or update our 
					privacy policy, we will post the new policy in this location and provide an 
					updated effective date for the policy so that you are always aware of our 
					information collection and use practices.
				</p>
				
				<h2>Special Notification with respect to Children&#39;s Privacy (Users under the age of 13)</h2>
				
				<p>
					In response to concerns about 
					protecting children&#39;s privacy online, Congress enacted the Children&#39;s Online 
					Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (&quot;COPPA&quot;), which sets forth rules and procedures 
					governing the ways in which websites may collect, use and disclose any personal 
					information for children under the age of 13. In accordance with Gigiti policy 
					and COPPA regulations, we DO NOT:
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					<li>Request or knowingly collect personally identifiable information online or offline contact information from users under 13 years of age; or</li>
					<li>Knowingly use or share personal information from users under 13 years of age with third parties;</li>
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				<p>
					It is possible that by fraud or 
					deception we may receive information given to us or pertaining to children under 
					13. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will 
					immediately delete the information from our servers
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